Private Acts of 1992 Chapter 240

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 8-10-101, is amended by adding the following new subsection:

( ) The office of constable is abolished in any county having a population of not less than nine thousand two hundred seventy-five (9,275) nor more than nine thousand four hundred (9,400) according to the 1990 Federal Census or any subsequent Federal Census.

SECTION 2. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.

SECTION 3. This act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-third (2/3) vote of the legislative body of Jackson County. Its approval or nonapproval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the legislative body of Jackson County and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 4. For the purpose of approving or rejecting the provisions of this act, it shall be effective upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. For all other purposes, it shall become effective [sic] 3.

Passed: April 30, 1992.